“A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.”

“And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”

“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. ”

“It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.”

“When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.”

“...the presence of this thing called a soul, and only this thing called a soul, makes a being in the Buffyverse capable of choosing to behave in a profoundly moral way or makes a being capable of redemption.”